Miguel Otaduy is full professor of computer sceince at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC Madrid), where he leads the Multimodal Simulation Lab. He received his BS (2000) in Electrical Engineering from Mondragon Unibertsitatea (Spain), and his MS (2003) and PhD (2004) in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From 2005 to early 2008, he was a research associate at the Computer Graphics Laboratory in ETH Zurich, and he joined URJC Madrid in Feb 2008. Miguel has chaired several international conferences, most importantly, the IEEE World Haptics Conference (2013 through 2019), the 2014 ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D),
and the 2010 ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA). He has also served on the editorial boards of IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics and IEEE Trans. on Haptics. He has over 100 publications in computer graphics, virtual reality, and robotics, and he is a recipient of an ERC Consolidator Grant (TouchDesign) and an ERC Starting Grant (Animetrics).
Miguel Otaduy is full professor of computer sceince at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC Madrid), where he leads the Multimodal Simulation Lab. He received his BS (2000) in Electrical Engineering from Mondragon Unibertsitatea (Spain), and his MS (2003) and PhD (2004) in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From 2005 to early 2008, he was a research associate at the Computer Graphics Laboratory in ETH Zurich, and he joined URJC Madrid in Feb 2008. Miguel has chaired several international conferences, most importantly, the IEEE World Haptics Conference (2013 through 2019), the 2014 ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D),
and the 2010 ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA). He has also served on the editorial boards of IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics and IEEE Trans. on Haptics. He has over 100 publications in computer graphics, virtual reality, and robotics, and he is a recipient of an ERC Consolidator Grant (TouchDesign) and an ERC Starting Grant (Animetrics).